Messages in a DNA bottle
--even after multiple generations. Any bets on what the first message ever decoded from human DNA will read? My money's on "Hello World".
View ArticleHistory of (Failed) Shuttle Replacements
So, why hasn't the Shuttle been replaced? Because it hasn't been easy. In the late 80's and early '90s, the cold-war-fantasy-cum-shuttle-replacement was the X-30 National Aerospace Plane (NASP) that...
View ArticleTales of two cities
"Architecture is the only art that moulds the world directly ... Nobody in the 20th century grasped this more firmly than Speer's patron and employer, Adolf Hitler." Albert Speer was the man Hitler...
View ArticleFocusing Sound
Basically, they can project a sound to a specific point/person from up to 100m away. Minority Report is coming closer to reality by the day...
View ArticleBattle of the Newsbots
As described in this article in New Scientist, MSN is trying its own version of Google News with a twist: theirs adds customized content tailored to the interests of the current reader.
View ArticleNokia vs iPod
Nokia today introduced their new N-series multimedia-centric phones (dropping the 4-digit model numbers they've been using for ever). The N91 in particular looks like it's shooting straight for the...
View ArticleMobile Phones of Greek PM, Government tapped
that unknown parties have been tapping the mobile phones of the Prime Minister, government ministers, military and police officials and others. Details are still a bit sketchy, but it looks like...
View ArticleTop Story: We fell for an internet hoax
The top-rated Greek news channel is Alpha TV's. Tonight's second-lead story: outrage and disgust over babycage.net, a quite obvious web hoax that is even listed as one on Open Directory (and which...
View ArticleAh, Misirlou, magical, exotic beauty
From Rebetika to Surf Rock: Misirlou is a melody that has spanned genres, from Greek, Turkish and Jewish folk songs to the classic Dick Dale version on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack to the Black-Eyed...
View ArticleWe're in your routers, hacking your Government
An IEEE Spectrum article on the Vodafone Greece phone-tapping case, quite possibly the most elaborate publicized cybercrime ever (previously).
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